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Four days later, Lennon's body was found in a Surrey ditch; he had been shot twice in the back of the head. Police said it looked like an I.R.A. execution. Before he died, Lennon had taken Melly's advice and gone to the N.C.C.L. For six hours...
Sir / Richard Schickel and I agree that the made-for-TV movies are perhaps the change of pace that TV needs [April 1]. However, I must disagree with his assessment of The Execution of Private Siovik. I believe that what Schickel calls "the mightiest flop of the year" was one...
Rape and Torture. Convinced that they narrowly escaped execution by leftist extremists last September, the junta leaders are determined to root out all traces of opposition. Midnight arrests still take place, and torture is, by common consent, a tool of the government's newly centralized intelligence apparatus. Its most...
The overall execution, although enthusiastic, was rather sloppy. Several of the numbers were enhanced considerably by the talents of Lise Landis, whose fluidity makes virtually any step look easy, but the dancing still needs a couple of nights to gel.
To many Israelis, who are well aware of Dayan's intimate involvement with the planning and execution of all military matters before the war, that simply did not wash. Elazar-who promptly tendered his resignation along with Major General Eliahu Zeira, the Chief of Military Intelligence, three of Zeira...